Sweet-heart and eye, the eyelash, the eyebrow in divan literature

194 SUMMARY In our study, SWEET-HEART and THE EYE, THE EYELASH, THE EYEBROW in DIVAN LITERATURE, the features carrying beauty elements have been gathered by going over fifty Divans. The couplets obtained by this way have been categorized into colour, form and function. It's been found out that, very often, the eye is represented by narcissus, the eyebrow by the crescent and the eyelash by tîr. Of the beauty elements mentioned above, the eye has been the most commonly used by poets. Then come the glance, the eyebrow and the eyelash in sequence. This proves the eye to be the main element whereas the others have subsidiary importance. In this study, the descriptive elements related to the eye, the eyelash and the eyebrow have been mentioned as a whole, and the alteration period by centuries has been shown in the "Charts" section. r1& * v^*